From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Murdie Subject: Re: [9fans] Emacs To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Cc: John Murdie In-Reply-To: <404a8f744e2df45761206bdde489fbef@caldo.demon.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-Id: Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 11:08:56 +0100 Topicbox-Message-UUID: aa558fca-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On 12 Jun, forsyth@caldo.demon.co.uk wrote: >>>>to research the reasoning and theory behind plan9 and acme? I realize it >> >>is rather different style from traditional UNIX editing as well as the >>>>Emacs style of editing, ... >>>> >>> i'd hope so after all this time. [i said] >>> >>read as "I understand it is easy to be preconditioned >>by confident utilization of UNIX/Emacs style editing >>over long periods of time, but, there is no reason to >>dismiss a new environment without first learning how > > no, i meant today must be roughly 20 years later, surely, > if not more. i'd hope at least the style and ideally the substance > might have changed a bit in these areas. i realise that > some older things turn out to be the best achievable, > even in computing, and some newer things are > worse than their predecessors. > in this case, however, i can't help thinking that the elapsed time > should provide some opportunity for interesting improvement. > > control-meta-shift-elbow! Or, as someone here calls it: the ``Richard III interface''*, alleging that one has to contort one's hands and body in order to issue certain keyboard chorded commands. * I read that Tudor propaganda portrayed Richard of York, one-time King of England, as ``Deformed, unfinished, sent before my time into this breathing world, scarce half made up.'' [Shakespeare, Richard III] -- John A. Murdie Department of Computer Science University of York England